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 70 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 854-JULY 31, 1956

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"(d) The automatic separation provisions of this section shall not Nonappiicabiiapply to any person named in any Act of Congress providing for the continuance of such person in the service, to any Member, to any congressional employee, to the Architect of the Capitol or any employee under the office of the Architect of the Capitol, or to any employee in the judicial branch who has been appointed to hold office for a definite term of years. "(e) In the case of an employee of The Alaska Railroad, Territory and^^aliai^zone of Alaska, or an employee who is a citizen of the United States en^pioyees. employed on the Isthmus of Panama by the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government, the provisions of this section shall apply upon his attaining the age of sixty-two years and completing fifteen years of service on the Isthmus of Panama or in the Terricory of Alaska. ((IMMEDIATE

RETIREMENT

"SEC. 6. (a) Any employee who attains the age of sixty years and completes thirty years of service shall, upon separation from the service, be paid an annuity computed as provided in section 9. "(b) Any employee who attains the age of fifty-five years and completes thirty years of service shall, upon separation from the service prior to attainment of the age of sixty years, oe paid a reduced annuity computed as provided in section 9. "(c) Any employee the duties of whose position are primarily the investigation, apprehension, or detention of persons suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States, including any employee engaged in such activity who has been transferred to a supervisory or administrative position, who attains the age of fifty years and completes twenty years of service in the performance of such duties, may, if the head of his department or agency recommends his retirement and the Commission approves, voluntarily retire from the service and be paid an annuity computed as provided in section 9. The head of the department or agency and the Commission shall give full consideration to the degree of hazard to which such employee is subjected in the performance of his duties, rather than the general duties of the class of the position held by such employee. The word 'detention', as used in this subsection, shall be construed to include the duties of— " (1) all employees of the Bureau of Prisons and Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, "(2) all employees of the Public Health Service assigned to the field service of the Bureau of Prisons or to the field service of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, "(3) all civilian employees employed in the field services at Army or Navy disciplinary barracks or at confinement and rehabilitation facilities operated by any of the United States armed services, and " (4) all employees of the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia, its industries and utilities, whose duties in connection with persons in detention suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States or of the District of Columbia or offenses against the punitive articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice require frequent (as determined by the appropriate administrative authority with the concurrence of the Commission) direct contact with such persons in the detention, direction, supervision, inspection, training, employment, care, transportation, or rehabilitation of such persons.

"Detention".

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